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CppCast episodes

November 27, 2020Fuzz Testing on the GPU
Rob and Jason are joined by Artem Dinaburg and Ryan Eberhardt. They first talk about a new version of CMake that was just released, an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup and another month of new ISO papers. Then they talk to Artem and Ryan who talk about fuzz testing, including a new fuzz testing project being worked at Trail of Bits to enable fuzz testing on the GPU.
News
Cmake 3.19 available for download
How C++ became the invisible foundation for everything, and what's next
November Monthly Mailing
Links
Let's build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs!
The Relevance of Classic Fuzz Testing: Have We Solved This One?
Vectorized Emulation: Hardware accelerated taint tracking at 2 trillion instructions per second
DeepState - Parameterized Unit Testing Framework
MCSema - Tool to translate binaries to LLVM bitcode
Remill - Library of CPU instruction semantics
Anvill - Tool to make translated bitcode look closer to what a compiler would emit
Rellic - Translates LLVM bitcode to C using Clang's AST library
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Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project
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1 hr 5 min
November 19, 2020Concepts and Algorithm Intuition
Rob and Jason are joined by Conor Hoekstra. They first talk about new and updated libraries in Boost and Herb Sutter's trip report covering news from the recent virtual ISO plenary meeting where the first new features were voted into C++23. Then they talk to Conor about some of his recent conference talks on Algorithm Intuition and Concepts vs typeclasses.
News
Butano: a modern C++ high level engine for the GBA
New Boost libraries in v1.75
Trip report: Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting (virtual)
Links
Conor's Conference Talks
ADSP: The Podcast
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Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project
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1 hr
November 12, 2020Video Games, Robotics and Audio
Rob and Jason are joined by Joël Lamotte. They first talk about C++20 Modules support in GCC and MSVC and a micro benchmarking library. Then they talk to Joël about how he got involved in C++, and his experiences working on indie video games, robotics and his recent transition to the audio industry working on a web assembly powered website.
News
P0847R5 Deducing This
C++20 Modules Compiler Code Under Review, Could still land for GCC 11
Criterion micro-benchmarking library
A Tour of C++ Modules in Visual Studio
Links
Best of Klaim's Music on Soundcloud
Glacierbound OST on Soundcloud
HomeTeam GameDev
Jellynote
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1 hr
November 05, 2020Unicode Progress and C++/C Study Group
Rob and JeanHeyd are joined by Aaron Ballman and Peter Brett, both members of the ISO C++ committee. They first talk about an extension for Visual Studio and Visual Code for visualizing struct layout and a blog post proposing a safer boolean type. Then they talk about Aaron and Peter about progress being made at virtual ISO meetings and the upcoming virtual Plenary meeting.
News
StructLayout Visual C++ Extension
Fun with Concepts: Do You Even Lift, Bool?
Meeting C++: My thoughts on "The... Community?"
Links
ISO C++ October 2020 Mailing
P1787: Declarations and where to find them
WG21 SG16 Unicode study group
Editing the C Standard
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1 hr
October 30, 2020ThinLTO
Rob and Jason are joined by Teresa Johnson from Google. They first discuss the Qt6 beta release and a blog post proposing range_ref, a lightweight view for ranges. Then they talk to Teresa about ThinLTO, the scalable and incremental Link Time Optimization built into LLVM.
News
Qt 6.0 Beta Released
Range_ref
Rob and Jason AMA
Links
ThinLTO
CppCon 2017: Teresa Johnson "ThinLTO: Scalable and Incremental Link-Time Optimization"
Meeting C++ 2020 - ThinLTO Whole Program Optimization: Past, Present and Future
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53 min
October 23, 2020Programming History, JIT Compilations and Generic Algorithms
Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Deane from Quantlab. They first discuss the 11.0 update of Clang and an a blog post highlighting some of the smaller features that were added in C++17. They then talk to Ben about some of his recent CppCon talks including one on what we can learn from the history of programming languages and another on the ability to JIT C++ code.
News
Clang 11.0.0 is out
17 Smaller but Handy C++17 Features
Links
Careers at Quantlab
Constructing Generic Algorithms: Principles and Practice - Ben Deane - CppCon 2020
Just-in-Time Compilation: The Next Big Thing? - Ben Deane & Kris Jusiak - CppCon 2020
How We Used To Be - Ben Deane - CppCon 2020
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54 min
October 16, 2020Bazel
Rob and Jason are joined by Lukács Berki and Julio Merino from Google's Bazel team. They discuss CppCon trip reports, the cpp subreddit and a video on C++ 20 Concepts. Then Lukács and Julio talk all about the advantages of Bazel and some of the key features of Google's open source build tool.
News
My favorite way to TDD
CppCon Trip Reports
r/cpp status update
Concepts in C++20
Links
Bazel
Bazel on GitHub
The final boss: Bazel's own JNI code
53 min
October 09, 2020Meeting C++ 2020
Rob and Jason are joined by Jens Weller from Meeting C++. They discuss a blog post on Immediately Invoked Function Expressions, a syntactic sugar library and JeanHeyd Meneid's blog and video about the C++ Community. Then they talk with Jens about the upcoming Meeting C++ conference, on line user groups and job fairs and more.
News
Coding Cards
Technique: Immediately Invoked Function Expression for Metaprogramming
SugarPP: syntactic 🍬 for programming in C++
The Community
Links
Meeting C++ Survey
Meeting C++ 2020
Meeting C++ Online
Burnout - Jens Weller - Meeting C++ 2019 secret lightning talks
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49 min
October 01, 2020Performance Matters
Rob and Jason are joined by Emery Berger from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They first discuss updates to GCC and the September ISO mailing. Then they talk to Emery Berger about Performance tooling and how improvements in Performance should be measured.
News
New C++ features in GCC 10
September C++ ISO Mailing
std::exchange patterns: Fast, Safe, Expressive and Probably Underused
include Meeting C++2020 scholarship
Links
Plenary: Performance Matters - Emery Berger - CppCon 2020
Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection vs. Explicit Memory Management
Stabilizer
Coz
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57 min
September 23, 2020CppCon 2020 Wrapup
Rob and Jason are joined by Jon Kalb. They talk about the first on-line CppCon conference and plans for the future.
Links
CppCon
CppCon 2020 YouTube Playlist
C++Now
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57 min